Teacher seniority costs

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trustees, recommends rejecting
the deal.

“This contract basicaliy says
one size fits all and it doesn’t,”
said Charles — Hingston,
employers’ association chair-
man.

Hingston said the emplov-
ers’ association asked the
proviacial government to facil-
inate slow wiks with the B.C.
Teachers Federation (BCTF.)
The government then shut out
the employers’ association and
made the proposed union deal
with the teachers’ union.

Education Ministry
spokesman Paige MacFarlane
said the minister believes thar

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trustees wil] vore in favor of the
proposed agreement. She said
that if che trustees turn down
the deal, the parties can go
back to the negotiating rable
or the government could force
acceptance of the aureement
through legislation.

“All the new elements in
this collective agreement are
fully funded,” said = Mac-
Farlane.

Some parts of the teachers”
union agreement relate to
clauses “rolled over” from a
period when bargaining was
done at the individual district
level. School districts used to

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vidual school districts agreed

to expensive clauses which they
sall must honor.

“That is not up te us to
tund those different (roll over)
clauses... Ifthe ministry started
uying to fund all those. we'd
be funding inequities in the
system,” said MacFarlane.

In North — Vancatver,
school board chairman Heal
said thar the provincial govern-
ment appears to be giving the
school district the “literal cost”
of the needed teachers. The

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government is also assuming
the new teachers hired will te
fresh graduates who will
receive salaries at the bortom
of the pay scale.

But Heal said that a roll-
over clause in North
Vancouver's contract, like most
school districts, requires that

seniazity prevails in hiring.

She said it was likely teach-
ers on call at the high end of
the pay scale will get the new
jobs,

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